Director: Anureet Watta

Year: 2022

‘Oranges in the Winter Sun’ is about the entanglements between memory and letting go. Told as a retelling, it is about two queer people finding space for their love in the cramped corners of the world. It is about a camera, with only twelve films - hence beckoning the photographer to decide what to leave inside and outside of a frame. It looks at the city of New Delhi through a queer persepctive, amongst its shadowy domes and incessant metro announcement- at every corner, queerness is seen as tresspassing. It briefly touches upon the themes of familial violence and religion, and it’s conflict with queerness. The film is about the memory of a love story - how you feed off memories until in the present you aren’t starved of that love. All scenes except for the last one are a retelling - stuck in the past, where the protagonist is willing time to stay. But it ends in hope, in the present, in possibility of much more to happen.